MIDTERM 1 STUDY QUESTIONS - History 2021 / RUSN 2023 Soviet...

History 2021 / RUSN 2023 Soviet Russia MIDTERM STUDY QUESTIONS Denis Kozlov MIDTERM STUDY QUESTIONS Be prepared to write an essay on each of the following questions. Your essay should be preferably several pages long, and it certainly needs to be more detailed and better developed than your answers in the ID section of the exam. You need to make an argument in the essay. You also need to be as specific as possible: make sure to support your argument with appropriate examples. 1. The Russian Revolution of 1917 Historians have long debated the origins of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Some present the Revolution as the inevitable outcome of the country’s historical development. Others believe that the Revolution was a Bolshevik coup d’état that did not enjoy any substantial support among the population, that the Revolution was a historical accident that would have never taken place but for the destabilizing effects of World War I on the political situation in Russia. Based on what you know about Russia’s history from the early 1900s

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